Why look back? What is it behind you that can even compare to what God has prepared for you? Just in case you didn’t know ... nothing compares to the things that God has ordained and prepared for you. Sometimes we have thoughts in our mind that tell us it was better in the past. It’s like the children of Israel when they were in the “process” of their deliverance, they murmured and they complained and they even said it would have been better for them to stay in bondage. That’s not God. God has not called for us to be in bondage to sin or slavery.
So often in life we want to look back and remember how things were instead of standing and staying in faith for the things we need God to do. Staying in faith is not easy because there is always something combatting our faith. There’s always situations coming up with the intent to cause us not to trust and believe what God has promised and we have to continuously cast down thoughts, imaginations, and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and what He has promised to do in and through our lives.
What we have to understand is the fact that God wants us to look forward with expectation. He wants us to trust in Him and have faith in His promises. We have to know that there are things that will occur in life but God’s power overrides them all. There is nothing too hard for God!
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Philippians 3:12-14
King James Version (KJV)
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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